Enter the world of Susan Lilian Townsend - sun-worshippers, work-shy writers, garden-centre lovers and those in search of a good time all welcome. Whether its a war against slugs, hosepipe bans, coping with writer's block or the perils of package holidays, Sue Townsend knows about it. Collected together now for the first time, her monthly column for Sainsbury's Magazine forms a set of pieces that is at once funny, perceptive and touching.